SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Down Roger! That’s wrong! Bad boy! (9) 6 Before the return of the music master, she appears (5)

9 She’s swallowing the second neat, drunkenly (5)

10 Taking a chance and getting ready to serve (7,2)

11 Car from abroad, it seems, but not Madeira! (5,5)

12 Used to be a quarter to, before (4) 14 Makes sure you see the home’s occupied by a Continental (7)

15 Do get 550 pigs out (7)

17 What made the paddler lose his balance completely? (7)

19 In America, calmed down (7)

20 Not the whole of Bird Island (4)

22 The men from the second rows (5,5) 25 The candidate gives a gasp about the cut that’s made (9)

26 Note the money is not English (5) 27 Polish people in the heart of Sweden (5) 28 So there’s a ruse to break in, my friend! (9)

DOWN

1 Drinks with one in quarters (5)

2 Inflexible, isn’t prepared to be a cover, anyway (9)

3 One’s informant at the zoo? (5-5)

4 Beats with twin love duets in a new arrangement (7)

5 The consequences of taking breaks around about mid-July (7)

6 Send for protection (4)

7 Kick oneself about the attempt to reform the scoundrel (5)

8 Catch and take in (9)

13 Ned and I got the cellar tidied up for the poor girl (10)

14 Make a converted bar into a café, it might be (9)

16 It set off to be a list, one observed on looking back (9)

18 Take back to the time Jimmy was on the ascendant (7)

19 The tie’s got crumpled a little in it, my dear (7)

21 Manage to stick the point in the wood (5) 23 Stop on board, which pleases one greatly (5)

24 News and part of the weather forecast? (4)